Brubaker (1980) 6.9
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. Director:Stuart Rosenberg |
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Brubaker (1980) 6.9
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. Director:Stuart Rosenberg |
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| Robert Redford | ... | ||
| Yaphet Kotto | ... | ||
| Jane Alexander | ... | ||
| Murray Hamilton | ... |
John Deach
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| David Keith | ... |
Larry Lee Bullen
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| Morgan Freeman | ... |
Walter
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| Matt Clark | ... |
Roy Purcell
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Tim McIntire | ... |
Huey Rauch
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Richard Ward | ... |
Abraham Cook
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| Jon Van Ness | ... |
Zaranska
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| M. Emmet Walsh | ... |
C.P. Woodward
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| Albert Salmi | ... |
Rory Poke
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| Linda Haynes | ... |
Carol
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| Everett McGill | ... |
Eddie Caldwell
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| Val Avery | ... |
Wendel
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When the new Warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees first hand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials and running. When he reveals himself, and starts to implement reforms to stop the corruption, the local business community, who had been benefiting from the scams, fights back, and the corrupt southern prison system, starts making political trouble for the new warden. Written by Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
BRUBAKER is my kind of movie; grim, realistic, stimulating and a story based around a great struggle between right and wrong. Robert Redford plays Brubaker (based on the real life story of one Thomas Murton of Arkansas, not to be confused with Thomas Merton, the poet) who tries to bring decency to an Arkansas prison that is corrupt from top to bottom. There are rotten scoundrels among the prisoners and some decent men as well. What is worse, Brubaker has to fight a State bureaucracy full of characters who are even more slimy and despicable than the worst of the prisoners. Along with basic reforms, he is out to uncover a series of murders, prisoners who were murdered and secretly buried. He is really up against it and its tough not to get emotionally involved. The writing and acting is more than ok. Redford is very good in spite of being a little too pretty for the rugged guy part. He's the only one in the movie with the 300-dollar blow dry haircut. This reminds me of the movie MARIE, another flick about a single warrior battling a corrupt state system. The Grape Nuts Guy (W Brimley) and the guy who played Mrs. Robinson's husband (M Hamilton)put in a good performance as despicable bureaucrats. Very little background music is another mature plus.
A good, feel-bad movie; and as a Bostonian, it's hard to hate a film that has a character in it named Fenway Park.